Pine View Elementary School students bridged the gap between young and old while visiting the Baldomero Lopez State Veterans Nursing Home in Land O' Lakes Dec. 10. ...more

December 17, 2008

Back in 1995, Gene and Polly Shewfelt started a volunteer snowball rolling by picking the citrus in their own backyard to provide food for the needy. ...more

December 17, 2008

An employee of the Bons Secours Nursing Home was arrested this morning on charges he molested an 83-year-old female resident who is suffering from dementia, St. Petersburg police say. ...more

December 11, 2008

Back in 1995, Gene and Polly Shewfelt started a volunteer snowball rolling by picking the citrus in their own backyard to provide food for the needy. ...more

December 10, 2008

Martha "Sunny" von Bulow, the American heiress who was first married to an Austrian playboy prince and then to a Danish-born man-about-society who was twice tried on charges of attempting to murder her, died Saturday at a nursing home in Manhattan. She was 76. ...more

December 7, 2008

State officials are taking steps to revoke the license of a nursing home here, maintaining it does not meet various standards of care. The Florida Agency for Health Care Administration has not issued a deadline for Long Term Care of St. Petersburg to close. But the agency has ordered the nursing home to begin evaluating patients at the facility, at 3479 54th Ave. N., to determine types of facilities suitable for their placement. ...more

November 25, 2008

to the dismay of doctors and hospitals - 82 percent of Floridians voting in the general election approved a state constitutional amendment granting them access to information about medical mistakes by health care facilities and providers. ...more

October 23, 2008

CLEARWATER A 66-year-old man was arrested Monday on charges he sexually assaulted a mentally and physically incapacitated woman at the Highland Pines Rehabilitation & Nursing Center. ...more

October 21, 2008

Millvina Dean was 2 months old when she was wrapped in a sack and lowered into a lifeboat from the doomed Titanic. Now 96, the last survivor of the sinking is selling mementos to help pay nursing home fees. ...more

October 17, 2008

Today more than 160,000 Floridians live in nursing homes or similar long-term care settings, and many are unaware of their rights and the resources available to protect and defend them. ...more

October 4, 2008